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GIR
GIR is voiced by Rikki Simmons. He is a malfunctioning Irken SIR (Standard-issue Information Retrieval) Unit who was assigned to Zim in the series. He was built by The Almighty Tallest out of SIR unit remains and whatever they could find in the trash and their pockets, passing him off to Zim as a "top-secret" and "advanced model". His name is a self-applied moniker that is never explained in the show. When GIR does comply, the cyan-colored parts of his body (most notably, his eyes, shoulders, and belly) glow red like normal SIRs. He has shown glimpses of intelligence and logic, as he did in the episode Walk For Your Lives and, Bad Bad Rubber Piggy, although Zim views this as disobedience, as they usually involve poking holes in his plans. He disguises himself in public by wearing a green dog suit which fools most humans, despite looking and acting nothing like an Earth dog. As seen in Tak the Hideous New Girl, GIR can also act as good tracking device for Zim when he is looking for the location of something or someone. GIR is a proficient dancer and, while at very popular dance clubs, he is often seen with several beautiful young girls and occasionally guys. They all find GIR to be very cute in his doggy outfit. Once in a while, these girls will drive GIR home, but after dropping him off something very bad always happens to them. GIR is also the only lead character in the show who loves to cook.
Had the series gone on for another season, an episode would have been produced where Zim would have been called away to court to be judged by the Tallests and by the Control Brains. They were going to see if Zim should still exist due to all of the chaos, devastation, three five year long entire planet black-outs (all on his home planet and all in a row), one half a planet black-out that lasted for six months (again on his own home planet) and numerous unintentional deaths that he's caused- two of which were of former Almighty Tallests. However, before the Control Brains kill Zim, his PAK makes them all go really wacky and he gets labeled as "The Most Amazing Irken Ever" by the Control Brains. While in his absence, GIR would have very unintentionally saved and taken over the earth and would have been made king of the entire planet. However, GIR would have also within a day been over-thrown as king by numerous protest groups a second just before Zim got home. During a different episode, Dib would have become bored of his life of hunting Zim and other paranormal topics and would have decided to study real science. This would have caused Zim to lose his motive to conquer or destroy the world. By having Zim lose his motive he would have become lazy and would have taken over the couch and would not have been willing to share it with GIR. This would have caused GIR to become very upset because GIR would have been very attached to that couch. At one point when he couldn't stand being parted from the couch any longer, GIR would have gone all the way to Dib's house (in his doggy costume) and would have begged Dib very hard to chase his master again, but it wouldn't have worked. In the end, when Dib would have come back GIR would have been very happy because it meant that his master had his old enemy back and that GIR could have his couch back. He would have screamed-out the worlds "Yyyaaayyy!! Couch!!" while in great joy. Another unfinished episode would have seen GIR getting entered in a contest (by Zim) to being named "The Best SIR Unit Ever!" and due to Tak's meddling, would have eliminated most of the competitors with exceptions of Mimi, GIR, Invader Ten's SIR unit, and Invader Skoodge's. In the end GIR was planned to have won. One last unfinished episode was supposed to show how GIR really annoys Zim with Zim making a new side-kick called Minniemoose to replace GIR, but GIR would have not been upset by this and even though Minniemoose would have proved to be more reliable than GIR, things would still have blown-up badly in Zim's face.
GIR is one of the friendliest characters from the show. This is partly because he has no sense of who is a friend and who is an enemy. GIR rarely understands situations, but when he does it's normally very important and is often used as a clue for the viewer(s) on what's going to happen. These clues normally have to due with Zim's crazy antics or unwillingness to listen to GIR. Whenever Zim does hear GIR's prediction on such topics (which is even rarer than GIR understanding the situation at hand), he ignores them because like as mentioned before, they tend to poke holes in his plans. Despite GIR rarely understanding the results of his predicaments, GIR still shows more of an awareness of the possible outcomes than Zim does.
Zim and GIR's relationship differs and can be hard to describe. This being due to many important factors. The first of which would be Zim's often self-centered personality contrasting to GIR's upbeat, clueless, thoughtful and spacey personality. Also Zim has a deep need to please his leaders and destroy or rule all mankind while GIR couldn't care less and often enjoys taking part in earth's culture. Zim on the other hand, prefers to distance himself from human culture and human interaction in order to complete his mission. GIR does not usually obey Zim at all which often ends with Zim shouting with fury at GIR. However, it should also be said that the two do at times show a bond where they care for one another. Even though Zim would not admit to it, he on rare occasion has even spoken with care for GIR (for example, in the Halloween episode Zim hoped that GIR would be okay and could defend himself against the zombies). Even though Zim often calls GIR a horrible little robot, he has at least once said that maybe he isn't such a horrible little minion after all (when they were fighting Dib in the episode "Battle Of The Planets"). He has also in a few different episodes called GIR insane. GIR, on the other hand, shows his master a lot more care and will sometimes hug him even when all covered in germs- much to Zim's disliking, discomfort and worst nightmare. Zim in return will often help or correct GIR when he's trying to learn how to act like a normal earth dog.
However, this standpoint changes in the episode "GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff," after Zim puts GIR in duty mode with an obedience chip and places GIR on a very dangerously high setting. This results in GIR becoming smart enough to question and later rebel against Zim. It also reveals GIR's true feelings on being Zim's servant. When Zim asks him if he remembered being his servant, GIR answered and said that he didn't like it, (which would explain some of the other things that he says in the series). For example, when he was saying "Wwwaaahhh! I wanted to explode" in the episode "Plague of Babies," when playing with the power amplifier (which Zim told him not to play with because it was sending out deadly waves of stupidness), or "Yea!! We're doomed!!" as in Bad, Bad, Rubber Piggy. Another point that could be argued about the episode "(GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff)" is that in the episode, GIR is more mature and has clearer thinking than in all of the other episodes. The audience can see GIR become really frustrated and livid at Zim for not using him properly and for being stupid and a threat to the mission. Because of all of the reasons mentioned before GIR is a far more threatening and more of a serious danger to Zim, but by the end of the episode is turned back (by Zim) to his old happy-go-lucky self.
To a point, Zim also trusts GIR as with little jobs like guarding the house, or bringing the vootcrusier around to catch him in the episode "Planet Jackers" (which he did, but forgot to open the top- thus resulting in Zim landing face down on the top of the vootcrusier) or annoying Dib in the episode "Battle of the Planets" (the later of which he had some success with and even earned him a little praise from Zim - although Zim did not say the praise with GIR around).
Unlike Zim, GIR loves many different types of earth foods like pizza, tacos, burritos, chicken, waffles, biscuits, hamburgers and more. To add his love of earth culture he also loves to cook and will make a very big deal out of it if Zim won't eat any of the food that he makes. He also loves to dance and is good at it. When seen at dance clubs, sexy and hot women often crowd around GIR just to be with him, however it should be mentioned that he's always wearing his dog costume when he's out at these clubs. Sometimes these women will drive GIR home, however something terrible always happens to them after they've dropped him off.
GIR is also the only character to steal an on screen kiss on the lips. It happened in the episode "Tak, The Hideous New Girl" when he and Gaz were trying to remote control Mimi so Mimi would make Tak's ship flip-out of control. GIR was attached to the computer which was connected to the remote that controlled Tak's ship. GIR would only agree to make the ship go crazy if Gaz danced with him and she had to, but she didn't like it. At the end of the dance GIR took Gaz's face in his little robot hands and kissed her on the lips. This resulted in Gaz running away, spitting and screaming. Another factor to point-out is that in the episode Bloaty's Pizza Hog when GIR was taking Gaz down to where the escape pods were he kept staring at Gaz and wowing at her with big eyes and she kept turning to him with an angry face every time he did it. Like Gaz, GIR also loves piggies. He also likes other animals and is kind to animals.
GIR and Dib's relationship is like that of Zim and Gaz's; however, its main difference is that it's a nicer relationship because the two characters have kinder personalities, GIR sees everyone as a friend and Dib underestimating GIR's capabilities. This relationship is seen a little more often than that of Zim and Gaz's and is elaborated on some more than that of Zim and Gaz's relationship. GIR unlike Gaz and Zim, is one of the few characters and the only main character in the show who thinks that Dib is nice and even says so at one point-though Dib's not around when he does. On the other hand, there have been a few times when Dib has taken advantage of this relationship and has used GIR as a way to inveterate Zim's house (also called the base). In return, GIR will sometimes carry-out orders from Zim when it involves Dib like annoying him in Planet Jackers or being made to hold Dib like a sacrificing object that's about to hit something that's really big and very bad as shown in Walk For Your Lives. Also when Zim called GIR for back-up in the episode Mysterious Mysteries, GIR said that Dib was mean to his master and that he was bad (but this could be viewed from the perspective that Zim called him before he appeared and possibly told him what to say). In GIR's fantasy of what happened in that episode, he pretended that he was a "chubby lady hiding in the bushes", and clearly was more focused on a really big squirrel than he was with what was going on between Zim, Dib and Gaz. In GIR's version of what happened that night (in Mysterious Mysteries), he had the squirrel attack Dib and eat his crazy head and as GIR's version ended, he had the squirrel fly back to his home plant and beat-up all of the bad guys. When asked about what his story had to do with anything, GIR replied that he and the squirrel were friends. Then he got called "crazy" by the show's host. Unlike Gaz and Zim, Dib will happily dance with GIR as exampled in The Frycook That Came From All That Space. Whenever Zim wants to fallow Dib or find the location of something important, GIR can act as a good tracking device that Zim can operate as seen in the episode "Tak the Hideous New Girl".
While GIR does for the most part play either a small role or a side-kick role in most episodes, there have been a few episodes where GIR takes center-stage. Those two episodes were "Invasion Of The Idiot Dog Brain" and "GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff".